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BEAD
Unique ID: NARC-CEEB43
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete blue glass annular bead of Late Iron Age to early Roman date. A deep cobolt blue colour with opaque white wavy lines around the body. The bead is 8mm thick and 18mm in diameter with a central hole 7mm in diameter.
Margaret Guido describes this type as Wave-decorated beads in her publication 'The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods', classed as Group 5, type 10d style.
Class: Guido Group 5; Type 10d
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 50
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 2.33 g
Diameter: 18 mm
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
District: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Podington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP9463
Four figure Latitude: 52.257149
Four figure longitude: -0.624269
1:25K map: SP9463
1:10K map: SP96SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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